This Tuesday's HBO documentary special on legendary playwright Arthur Miller is as good an excuse as any to watch The Crucible, the 1996 adaptation of his own play starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, and Joan Allen. Miller did the screenplay adaptation himself, leading to his first and only Academy Award. The Crucible, of course, was... Read more

Silver Bullet doesn’t get nearly enough love from Stephen King fans as it should. Corey Haim and Gary Busey are a ‘80s dream team as a paraplegic boy and his kindly alcoholic uncle hell-bent on ridding the town of the werewolf that stalks it. Complete with terrifying action sequences, gory practical effects and a pulse-pounding score, Silver... Read more

If you love the 1966 Batman series' campy charm and the original Star Trek's kitschy space aesthetic, then Lost in Space needs to be your next exploratory binge. Set in the far future of 1997, this sci-fi show tracks the oversaturated adventures of the space family Robinson as they journey from painted backdrop to painted backdrop on their... Read more

If you're still riding a Greta Gerwig high after Lady Bird, you're gonna love Maggie's Plan. Starring Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore, the offbeat comedy follows Maggie, a woman who wants to have a baby and falls into an affair with a married professor. While things start off relatively swimmingly given the situation, the three soon find... Read more

A unique combination of originality and sincerity, the 2017 indie charmer Brigsby Bear is a special film. Written by and starring Kyle Mooney, the offbeat comedy centers on a man who sets out on a journey to finish the story of his favorite TV show after it abruptly ends. Brigsby Bear is about so much more than that, but I don't want to ruin the... Read more

Mystic Pizza, which stars Annabeth Gish, Lili Taylor, and Vincent D'Onofrio, is a romantic drama about three girls trying to figure out their futures while slinging pizza in a small Connecticut town. However, make no mistake, a star was born in Mystic Pizza, and it wasn't any of those three now well-known actors. The minute Julia Roberts appears... Read more

It's rare that a show gets a second shot at life after being unceremoniously cancelled -- but appropriate that Timeless, Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan's relentlessly entertaining time travel drama would be the one to turn the clock back and nab a second season. The show stars Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter and Malcolm Barrett as an historian,... Read more

More than two decades later, the Jumanji franchise returns, this time powered by an A-list cast comprised of Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillen, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart. The film was a critical success, and moviegoers agreed, helping Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle pull in nearly a billion dollars at the box office.